Christina Koch on Artemis 2 underestimates the Battery Ejection Spring



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    1. Physics is crazy, so they’re going 4200mph, and that battery just went 4203mph?

    2. Imagine spending a week+ with 3 other people in such close quarters. Hats off to them, but I bet its worth it.

    3. thestereo300 on

      Things that are real but also incredibly weird are the lack of gravity in space and also dinosaurs.

      It’s too bad we never got to see dinosaurs in space. Those would have been some really big spaceships. Those spacewalks would have been legendary…

    4. Insightseekertoo on

      My claustrophobia starts acting up just looking at that space inside. I guess I won’t grow up to be an astronaut.

    5. The worst part is you don’t dare just let something like that go and grab another one. On one shuttle mission, a brass knob came loose from a piece of camera equipment and lodged between the instrument panel and the inner pane of the windscreen. When they got back, the decrease in relative pressure caused the cabin to contract a little and wedged the piece in.

      It *almost* grounded the shuttle. They couldn’t leave it there, exerting force on one point, and they were going to have to disassemble the whole instrument panel if they couldn’t get it out, and that was going to take a long time to get put back together and recertified. I think they ended up shrinking it a little with liquid CO2 to get it loose.

      That’s got to be a lithium-ion battery and you can’t have that getting jammed out of sight somewhere and getting pinched or it could catch fire. That’s why on airliners they tell you if you drop your phone or tablet next to your seat, *don’t* move your seat and let the cabin crew help you retrieve it.

    6. relevant__comment on

      They can’t train you for everything at NASA. But, you best believe they are currently developing a 13 page manual on this exact scenario now.

    7. Short circuits equipment.. “uhm, was that thing important? Is it too late to turn back? “

    8. GarageStackDev on

      The earth is clearly flat, folks. This is obviously green screen and wires.

    9. guywithblackcamera on

      That actually looks like a CF card. The battery is on the bottom of the camera body (D5 I assume)

    10. thisaccountbeanony on

      She seems incompetent. Immediately jumps and gets entangled in tubes ands wires.

    11. ilovetheskyyall on

      I’m impressed by her reflexes! Didn’t let it out of her sight and snatched it on her second try!

    12. LemonLower1155 on

      Idk but seeing her hair free roam like that give me the worries. Hope here hair doesn’t get tangled in anything important.

    13. The mess of cables freaks me out. Like what if you accidentally get snagged and yank something out or break it

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